The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-01-05


and of the Chemical Societies of Paris, Ber-
lin, etc His various positions give him an
income of about $4,000 year. He has also
written several medical works of great value
and has hardly passed his fortieth year.
AT the meeting of the state committee on
textbooks, held in Burlington last week.
bids were presented by five publishers for
the contract for furnishing the books for
scientific instruction in the schools. Clark
& Maynard of New York presented Iutchi-
sons textbooks. Leach, Shewell q San
born of Boston and New York presented
Brands. Ivison, Brakeman & Taylor of
New York presented Smiths (Dr Smith of
Dartmouth. A. S. Barnes & Co. of New
York presented The Pathfinder Series,
three books. Fowler & Co of New York
presented The Man Wonderful in the House
Beautiful. The series of A. S. Barnes *
Co. were urged by Mrs. Hunt of Massachu-
setts and Mrs. Perkins of St. Johnsbury,
representing the Woman's Christian Tenn
perance Union. All the other publishers
or agents are said to have combined against
this series. The decision has not yet been
announced.
In General.
STANLEY has arrived in Belgium.
THE health of the President is improving.
JOHN ROACH, the ship-builder, is fatally i'll.
WAR preparations are active in Great
| Britain.
Mrs LOGAN received 200 messages of con-
dolence.
UPPER CANADA has returned liberal
! government.
RAILROADS in the West are badly block
AIDED by snow.
OVER five feet of snow on the level is re-
! ported in Indiana.
WESTERN MARYLAND was shaken by an
| earthquake Monday.
GENERAL Hustled will be speaker of the
| New York assembly
The opening of parliament will be post
poned until February.
FIRE at Franklin, Ohio. destroyed four
buildings; loss $4,000.
FORTY degrees below zero at WATERFOWL,
n. ", Monday morning.
FIFTEEN thousand Jews have been ex-
! PEELED from Kieif, Russia,
DE LEssEPs wants S27 100000 more to
complete the Panama canal.
GosCHEN succeeds Lord Churchill as
| leader of the house of commons.
GENERAL w. w. LoRING of Egyptian
fame died in New York last week.
LORD HARRINGTON has declined to be-
come member of the government.
FIRE at Greensburg, Pa, destroyed
block of buildings; damage $4,000
DYNAMITE was discovered last week I'M
der the car-tracl1s at San Francisco.
Cost of new buildings, alterations, etc,
in Boston the past year So ,046OO3.
THE Vienna press is becoming convinced
that Russia is determined upon war.
MICHAEL DAvITT was married to Miss
! Mamie Yore at Oakland, Cal, last week.
PEOPLE of British Columbia are planning
to starve out the Chinese in that section.
HALF million dollars is asked for the re-
| lief of Texas people suffering from famine.
L I'm
injured by gas explosion at Portsmouth,
| England.
AN unknown vessel was sunk in a col
lision off Bardsly England, and fourteen
! lives lost
THE Gar of Russia has issued a ukase
which virtually eXpels all German Jews
| from Poland
A MINSTREL theater for Boston, on the
! plan of Dockstader's in New York, is in
contemplation.
MONDAY it was cold enough to freeze hard
in Louisiana and Florida; oranges will prob
| ably suffer some.
THE Gaesburg Qll.) opera-house was de-
stroyed by fire last week. Loss ST., 900; in
sured for S25, 600.
THE opera-house block and other build
! ings in Girard, Pa, were burned Friday;
the loss is $4,000.
A COLD wave prevailed over Minnesota
| CdIlTudN, lHt mercury marking UDlTIN-nNt
degrees below zero
IT is asserted by well-informed author
ity that Russia and Germany formed an
alliance fortnight ago
a PANIC occurred at a fair in Madras and
several hundred people are reported to
have been crushed to death.
ALARMING and baseless reports are being
sent out from Washington regarding the
Presidents physical condition.
THE Bib county (Ga.) orphan asylum
was burned Saturday night, but the forty
| five inmates escaped uninjured.
DIR. HoRATIo POTTER, retired bishop of
the Episcopal diocese of New York, died
Sunday in his eighty-hfth year
TREASURER GEORGE w. WILLARD of the
Peabody Guards of Springfield, Mass, is
missing. SO is $500 of the company's cash.
A sLEIGH-LoAD of twenty young people
was struck by train at Fort Wayne, Ind.
two We're killed and eight severely injured.
A DISASTROUS fire has occurred on Wood
street, London, affecting the property of
twenty-five firms. The damage is enormous.
TWENTY EIGHT thousand people in west
ern Texas are reported suffering from alb
ject poverty as a result of last years drouth.
A CHICAGO dispatch says that ex-Repre-
sentative Farwell has the best prospects OF
being General Logan's successor in the
senate.
SENATOR Brown of Georgia is expected to
resign his seat in congress. Governor Cor
don, who formerly held that seat, may sue
coed him.
THE Buffalo and Rochester papers have
raised their subscription price to the former
rates. The New York papers would like to
do the same
AT Norwak, Ohio, Miss Mary, daughter
of n. q. Sherman of that place, was mar
ried last Thursday to Burchard A. Hayes
son of the eX-president.
A MOVEMENT is on foot among the New
ark, n j., Cinnamon to become citizens, sc
as to secure better protection. They mum
Der nearly two hundred.
FoRTY-sEvEN thousand dollars ont of the
$4,000 necessary to erect new building
for the Methodist Seminary in Tilton, n
H., have been subscribed.
EDITOR MCMAsTERs of the New York
Freemdn'S journal, a leading Roman Catho
, lie paper, died last week. He was origin
ally Scotch Presbyterian.
MERCURY went down twenty or thirty
, degrees below zero in some parts of Main,
last Thursday morning. AndoVer, New
, Brunswick, reported forty-two below.
AT the annual dinner of the Boston Mer
chants Association at the Vendome, las
week, speeches on national issues wer,
made by several visiting congressman.
CARDINAL TAsCHEREAU and the Roman
Catholic clergy have expressed themselves
as determined to drive the order of til,
knights of Labor out of the church il